Improvement in brake for wagons



` rented a new and improved Wagon-Brake; and I do i icaton, inwhichswagOn, showing the-brake mechanism, and Figure 2 is a transversevertical section.4

' connecting-'rod by the holding backof theanimals-mechanisirn'.alsa-:the brakes 'may be applied indeso as to admit ot'being drawn forward whenit is clear of the wheels, except when pressedbackward.

`forced against it.

@sind dtyiiiire.

HENRY `-nAciN-E. or? PAOLA', KANSAS.

Leners Patent. No. 105,845, fatal .my 26,1870.

rmnovnmzm IN BRAKE ron wAGoNs.

The Schedule referred-to. in these Letters Patent and makingpiirt of thelame.

To all whom it may ooncer'n.- s i Beit known that I, 4HENRY RAoINE,-ofPaola, in the county of Miami and State of Kansas, have inhereby declarethe following to be a full,.ciear, and exact description of` t-he same,reference being had'to the accompanying drawing making a part of thisspeci- Figure -1 is aplan `view 4of thellower4 side of the Thisinvent-ion relates to-.a brakel apparatus, which is connected with theneck-yoke ofthe draft animals by a rod running forward under the tongue,and is operated by the rearwardmovement given to the -said when goingdown hill, `there being'alsoin the combination a mechanism forpreventingthe application of the brakes when the 'animals are' backing, by whichpendently of the'said connecting-rod.

In thegdra'wingfi A is a brake-bar.

a, a, the rubbers. 1 i b b, the holders of the brake-bar. 0, a rodplaced lengthwise beneath the wagon-body B, passiugloosel-y through thecenter of the' brakebar, and extending some distance inrear of the same,

desirable t'o increase the distance between. the front and rear axles. 1

del are springs, by which the brake-bar is vkept c is a button. on therod c, in front of the brake-bar, -which `button moves the brake-barbackward when `fis a-rod, jointed at its rear extremity to the front endofthe rod c, 'passing looselythrough the. front Vaxle 0,'and jointeditsV forward extremity to the hinder eudof a rod, h, which'runs forwardbeneath i t-he tongue D, being upheldin straps i, andis connected,

at its front end, with afrrule, k, which slides on the tongue. Theholding back of the animals slides the ferrule k to rear, and appliesthe brake to they wheels through the medium of the mechanism abovedescribed.

When v,the lanimals are backing, it is desirable to prevent theapplication of' the brakes. For this purpose, a pin, l, is placedcrosswise of the rode, in a slot of the-latter, and is jointed atboth'euds'to rods u n, which extend forward, one at each side of the.

coupling-bar o, and are connected, at their frontends, with a crank, 1,on a bar, s, which is mounted in eyes that are secured in the frontbolster1 E.

t is a handle which projects upward from the bars, so as to be withineasy reach of one sitting in the wagonfbox. If the handle t be thrownbackward, it draws the pin l forward to, the end of the slot, and thepin consequently receives the rearward thrust of the rod c. If thehandle tbe left upright, the slot allows the bar c sufficient play toapply the brakes. 1 AIf the hau'dle'tbe thrown forward, it moves the pinl backward so far as`to cause it to apply the brakes. Hence', the handlet is used, in ascending hills, when .the wagon is halted, and must beprevented from' moving backward.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-v Y Thevbrake-bar A, provided with the rubbers a a, and combined with thesliding rod c, provided with thebutton e, the jointed rodsfh, thesliding ferrule k, the piu '1, connecting-rods 'n a, crank-bars s, andhandle t, in-the manner and for the purpose specified.

` HENRY RACINE. Witnesses:

J'. I. EINER, WM. B.'BBAYMAN.

